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Peter McKenzie was born in Alexandria, Dunbartonshire in 1914 and educated at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He gained the qualifications MB, ChB, 1938 and DPH, 1940. McKenzie then became Resident at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, a casualty surgeon at Knightswood Hospital, and Senior Medical Officer at Southern General Hospital and Hall Tutorial Fellow at Western Infirmary between 1938–1946.
Following this he became Deputy Physician Superintendent at Belvidere Infectious Diseases Hospital, Glasgow from 1946–1949 and Physician Superintendent, also at Belvidere, between 1949 and 1979. In the 1950s, McKenzie and Professor Alex Forrester set up an intensive care unit at Belvidere Hospital for polio patients suffering from respiratory paralysis. McKenzie retired in 1979 and died in 1994. |
